use abc qw (DB_xxx); my $dbh; my $stat1 = system ("gzip -t xyz.gz"); print "The stat checking:$stat1\n"; my $userid = xxx; my $passwd = xxx; my $database = xyz; my $autocommit = 0; $dbh=DB_xxx(\$userid, \$passwd, \$database, \$autocommit); my $stat2 = system ("gzip -t xyz.gz"); print "The stat checking:$stat2\n";